Pro-social 50-kHz ultrasonic communication in rats: Post-weaning but not post-adolescent social isolation leads to social impairments—phenotypic rescue by re-socialization

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Seffer, Dominik ^a   Rippberger, Henrike ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a   Wôhr, Markus ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affiliative behavior; Juvenile social isolation; Negative symptoms; Rough and tumble play; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PEER GROUP; PHENOTYPE; RAT; REHABILITATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION; WEANING;

EID: 84929329902     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00102     Document Type: Article

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